St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-03-14
THE TWO ROADS.
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The Broad aud ihe NarroW-.A Ser.
mon by Rev. d. L.. Morrill,.


The Bible speaks OF the mind aud heart
as the path and gateway by which mans in
ner self travels the field of knowledge and
joy or OF ignorance and ruin. Past super
stition and error have given way TO a sclen-
tific and scriptural conception of q God
who rules his created universe by laws abso-
solute, yet so plastic Us to include His provi-
dence and mans prayer. To Him who sees
the middle aud end as well as the beginning,
it has seemed best that we should be Great
ures of choice between a path narrow and
strait or ways wide and wrong. Not to have
choice is not to have character. There is no
virtue worth the name without volit1on.
1t is foolish to be querulous, dissatisfied
and indignant at the Bible for stating fact
the existence of which it is not responsible
for. That "inany" do crowd the broad way
and few find the marrow" is what we daily
see
How many throng the paths of amuse-
ments which make destruction please? OF
idleness meanest in the mightiest and might
lest in the meaneSt?
Ofavarice, which leads ambition to vault
ing tyrannical, treacherous condition?
Of gambling, that outrage upon civiliza-
ton, fraternity and friendship which only
differs from robbery as dueling from assassin
alton?
or intemperance, which impairs health,
quanders property, blights the mind, breaks
the heart and damns the soul?
vi luSt, WHICH tfltS W uldAc i've ny
bread alone, but starves and scars him with
a suffering he must ever endure among the
unholy and filthy?
Wisdom uttereth her voice in the streets
saying. MY son. walk not thou in the way
with them, refrain tiny foot from their path"
Since men often make up their mind and
then ask for light / urge YOU to give wisdom
q clean page to write its counsels upon and
an unoccupied ear to speak to. Wisdom
speaks through conscience, saying of these
two courses sat before you, This is right, do
it, and This is wrong, do not do it, If you
hear and heed her voice it will grow stronger
and speak with clearer utIerance. Wisdom
cries, through human experience, that Ger
tain acts are always followed by disaster. re-
morse and lowering OF the moral character,
while certain others result i'll just the oppo-
site. Wisdom cries through patriarch.
prophet and apostles, speaking loudly and
clearly to every class, age and mood as to
present and eternal life, things temporal and
spiritual. Through examples of goodness
and portents of evil the bible warns, encour-
ages, pleads and threatens. Most and
best of all, wisdom speaks in Him,
WHO never spoke as man, who has
told us that if sincerely and unselfishly we
Will try to obey him we shall not go fatally
astray. In all of lifes broad temptations
there Is provided a marrow" way of escape,
which we should strive to enter; which we
should literally 'agonize' to obtain. AS in
way is so straight and the obstacle so great to
be overcome that, unless we strive to enter in
and shun the broad way of Incidence, pleas
ures and ordinary attachments, we shall fall
and fail So in the realm of the spiritual,
unless we strive unless we work out our
salvation with fear and Il embling, we shall be
of the few who find it.
Blessing and cursing go together. Eat
proper food and be nourished, or poison and
die. Be an honorable citizen an you will be
respected; lawless and you are u criminal
Enter the gate that is spanned by the bow of
Gods love, and with the pure in heart you
shall be blessed in seeing God Pass through
that way which leads to destruction and you
shall realize Dante's motto over the door of
the inferno, Leave hope behind all We who
enter here
May He who was tempted but did not fall.
who was "made perfect through suffering
make us His children, giving us a liberty
which will love and choose the way of truth
and life, and shun the broad, destructive
path of bad thoughts, bad actions, bad books,
bad places and bad companions.